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(More customer reviews)Tom Jones has so long suffered from his jokey Vegas image and off-stage reputation for wild, orgiastic parties and paternity suits that many "serious" music people have discounted his immense talent and blistering showmanship. (One guy who knew a good thing when he saw it was Elvis Presley, who virtually stole Jones' act, contrary to popular belief.) Jones has always been something of an anomaly in the music world--a macho stud with hair on his chest in a business filled with lots of wishy-washy guys who could go either way. This 1989 concert finds Jones at the mid-century mark, and he hasn't lost much. He still stuffs his bulges in skintight duds and lewdly gyrates his hips and wags his eyebrows at the overheated females in the first row. But it's that odd, hard-to-define Welsh voice that puts Jones over the top, a voice out of Ray Charles and Little Richard by way of the working-class slums of Wales. And unlike many jaded, seasoned performers, Jones has never lost the joy in facing an audience, singing old warhorses like "It's Not Unusual" for the millioneth time. He gives it his all again, whether singing stripteasers like "Deliah," country cornballs like "Green Green Grass Of Home," rockers like "Satisfaction," ballads like "At This Moment," or funk like Prince's "Kiss." Jones' prodigious vocal skills put him in a category with the late, great Bobby Darin; there doesn't seem to be any musical genre he can't handle. This is an essential video for any Jones' fan (admitted or not) or anyone who still cares about crack showmanship in an age of also-rans and mediocrity. BUY IT.
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